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| Haute-Corse | |
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| Coat of arms of the Haute-Corse department | |
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| Administration | |
| Department number: | 2B |
| Region: | Corsica |
| Prefecture: | Bastia |
| Subprefectures: | Calvi Corte |
| Arrondissements: | 3 |
| Cantons: | 30 |
| Communes: | 236 |
| President of the General Council: | Paul Giacobbi PRG |
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| Population | Ranked 93rd |
| -1999 | 141,603 |
| Population density: | 30/km² |
| Land area¹: | 4666 km² |
| ¹ French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km². | |
Haute-Corse (Corsican: Corsica suprana) (English: Upper Corsica) is a French department. It constitutes the northern part of the island of Corsica.
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The department was formed on September 15, 1975, when the department of Corse was divided into Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud. The department corresponds exactly to the former department of Golo which existed between 1793 and 1811.
The department is surrounded on three sides by the Mediterranean Sea and on the south by the department of Corse-du-Sud.
The inhabitants of the entire island of Corsica are called Corsicans.
The Corsicans are a fiercely independent people. However, a July 6, 2003 referendum on increased autonomy was voted down by a very thin majority: 50.98 percent against to 49.02 percent for. This was a major setback for French Minister of the Interior Nicolas Sarkozy, who had hoped to use Corsica as the first step in his decentralization policies.